Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson
Morning Edition: Courtside Chemistry: How NBA’s Phil Jackson Won ‘Eleven Rings’
This is the story of a preacher’s kid from North Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative leaders of our time. In his quest to reinvent himself, Jackson explored everything from humanistic psychology and Native American philosophy to Zen meditation. In the process, he developed a new approach to leadership based on freedom, authenticity, and selfless teamwork that turned the hypercompetitive world of professional sports on its head.
In Eleven Rings, Jackson candidly describes how he:
- Learned the secrets of mindfulness and team chemistry while playing for the champion New York Knicks in the 1970s
- Managed Michael Jordan, the greatest player in the world, and got him to embrace selflessness, even if it meant losing a scoring title
- Forged successful teams out of players of varying abilities by getting them to trust one another and perform in sync
- Inspired Dennis Rodman and other “uncoachable” personalities to devote themselves to something larger than themselves
- Transformed Kobe Bryant from a rebellious teenager into a mature leader of a championship team.
NPR: Inferno Excerpt
Weekend Edition: ‘Inferno’ is the Book I Really Want To Read
NHPR: Dan Brown on a New England Stage
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces … Dante’s Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle. By the author of The Da Vinci Code.
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Weekend Edition: ‘Fat’ Dad, Jim Gaffigan on Kids, Comedy and Apartment Living
The Leanard Lopate Show: Comedian Jim Gaffigan
Jim Gaffigan is outnumbered. The comedian and actor lives with his wife, Jeannie Noth Gaffigan, and five children - five; that’s not a typo - in a two-bedroom apartment in lower Manhattan. It’s a neighborhood that proudly abounds with hipsters, swingers, adults-only shops, men in high heels and people who mutter to themselves on the street. But nothing may attract more surprise in the neighborhood than a Midwestern couple and their five children. Jim Gaffigan, of course, is a widely-acclaimed and traveled comedian - or, as a son once put, it a stand up chameleon - who may be best-known for his routines about American food, including Hot Pockets.
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All That Is: A Novel by James Salter
The Leanard Lopate Show: James Salter’s Novel ‘All That Is’
The Book Show: James Salter
Exclusive First Read: All That Is
NPR: Book Review - All That Is
Romantic and haunting, All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.
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What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts that Mattered Most by Elizabeth Benedict
Tell Me More: What’s the Most Meaningful Gift Your Mom Gave You
Mother’s Day is this Sunday. While some people are racking their brains to think of the perfect way to show their love and appreciation for Mom, a group of distinguished women recently flipped that script and wrote about the most profound gift their own moms gave to them. Their essays are collected in the new book What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most.
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